William Starr Miller House

The William Starr Miller House stands as a refined example of Beaux-Arts architecture on a street once defined by much more ostentatious displays of wealth. When industrialist William Starr Miller commissioned the firm Carrere and Hastings to design this residence in 1912, he opted for a restrained Louis the Thirteenth style inspired by seventeenth-century Paris. The use of red brick and limestone created a cheerful, colonial-influenced aesthetic that stood in quiet contrast to the surrounding marble and limestone palaces of the Gilded Age. Completed in 1914, the building was designed to be a sophisticated family home rather than a stage for overwhelming architectural grandiosity.